LAA @ BOS
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“The challenge cart got its steps in.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 152 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Eli White vs Reid Detmers - 2-0.30▼8 · 3-1 ball called strike
Roman Anthony vs Tayler Saucedo - 3-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Wade Meckler vs Raymond Burgos
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
5 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Travis d'Arnaud — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Jose Siri — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Wade Meckler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Nick Sogard — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.